{"id":2027,"date":"2016-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-790\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:59:06","slug":"innovation-anthology-790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/06\/16\/innovation-anthology-790\/","title":{"rendered":"#790: GEM Report:  Canada Takes Lead In Global Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 790.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\";\n\tmso-font-charset:78;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073741899 0 0 159 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\";\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ansi-language:EN-US;\n\tmso-fareast-language:JA;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\";\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><font size=\"2\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report for 2015 has just been released.<\/p>\n<p> Each year GEM surveys 60 countries around the world to assess the state of entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p> And there&rsquo;s encouraging news for Canada.<\/p>\n<p> Dr. Peter Josty is the executive director of THECIS, the Centre for Innovation Studies and he&rsquo;s our representative for GEM Canada.<\/p>\n<p> <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\">DR PETER JOSTY: &nbsp;<\/strong><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">Well, definitely the most outstanding result is the fact that we are now ranked Number 1 among all the developed countries for entrepreneurship. &nbsp;And this is the very first time that we&rsquo;ve been in that position. <span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>For the last couple of years we&rsquo;ve been Number 2 or Number 3, but this year we have surpassed the US and we have more entrepreneurs in Canada in startups than they have in the United States. &nbsp; A big part of it is the fact that our rate of female entrepreneurship is much higher now than we&rsquo;ve seen in the past, and it&rsquo;s much higher than in other countries. <span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>In fact, if you look at the rates, comparing males and females, the rate of female entrepreneurship is 84 percent of the male rate. <\/em><\/p>\n<p> Dr. Peter Josty believes increasing support and mentorship for women going into business could be one reason behind the surge in Canadian female entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/> I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-06-16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report shows Canada leads 60 nations in entrepreneurial activity, says Dr. Peter Josty of GEM Canada <\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,45,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-entrepreneurship-commercialization","category-innovation","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}